50 ways to improve your weather forecasting /

This is a book about practical weather forecasting, and it starts where most other books finish. Weather forecasts give you a lot of information about the weather to come but they often leave out a lot of the detail, and the timing of changes can also be vague. In this book, Dag Pike shows how to tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pike, Dag
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2007.
Colección:50 ways series.
Temas:
Weather forecasting.
Marine meteorology.
Temps (Météorologie) > Prévision.
Météorologie maritime.
NATURE > Weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Marine meteorology
Weather forecasting
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • WEATHER FORECASTS
  • 1 When to go to sea
  • 2 Negotiating with the weather
  • 3 Weather in the fourth dimension
  • 4 The limitations of forecasts
  • 5 Questioning the forecast
  • 6 Evolving weather
  • 7 You get what you pay for
  • 8 Weather from coast stations
  • INTERPRETING THE FORECASTS
  • 9 Recording the weather
  • 10 Reading between the lines
  • 11 The meaning of 'later'
  • 12 The speed of the weather
  • 13 Pinning down the wind strength
  • 14 The language of forecasters
  • 15 Forecasting wave height
  • FINE-TUNING THE FORECAST
  • 16 Fine-tuning factors
  • 17 Inconsistencies in the forecast
  • 18 When the airflow is broken
  • 19 When the wind is off the land
  • 20 Winds around and over islands
  • 21 Winds parallel to the shore
  • 22 Sea breezes
  • THE WIND AND THE SEA
  • 23 The Beaufort Scale
  • 24 The effect of wind on the tides
  • 25 Tides and waves
  • 26 Wave refraction
  • 27 Wave heights
  • 28 The effect of depth on sea conditions
  • 29 Identifying dangerous sea conditions
  • 30 What makes a wave break
  • 31 Fetch and time
  • LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
  • 32 Radiation fog
  • 33 Advection fog
  • 34 When will the fog clear?
  • 35 Drizzle
  • 36 Gusts
  • 37 Squalls
  • 38 Thunderstorms
  • 39 Avoiding thunderstorms
  • 40 Line squalls and waterspouts
  • 41 The message from the clouds
  • 42 Clouds in a warm front
  • TACTICS AND SHORT-TERM CHANGES
  • 43 Deepening depressions
  • 44 Secondary lows
  • 45 Using satellite information
  • 46 Running for shelter
  • 47 Weather tactics
  • 48 Coastal tactics
  • 49 Weather routing
  • 50 Weather lore.

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